tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154151602024-03-09T05:37:48.303+08:00My personal notes and comments about HTML DB, and the IT Industry in general.Colin Sheppardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02656413682705521139noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415160.post-1137645783511255002006-01-19T12:38:00.000+08:002006-01-19T12:43:03.520+08:00

I noticed today that the FCKeditor has a new version 2.2 released:http://www.fckeditor.net/whatsnew/default.html

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I saw this article called "Fall in IT zeal softens criteria for uni entry"in the Brisbane newspaper "The Courier Mail".(Note: 'OP' means overall position: "Overall Positions, or OPs, provide a statewide rank order of students (on a 1 to 25 scale, 1 being the highest) based on students’ achievement in Authority subjects studied for the Queensland Senior Certificate.")I have made my own comments in

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These are a list of OpenOffice quick links:Official Website: http://www.openoffice.org/ Official Forums: http://www.oooforum.org/Writer Forum: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewforum.phtml?f=2Macros: http://ooomacros.orgMacros on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87718Some Good Topics:HowTo: Check if OO 2.0.0 or 2.0.1 is installed:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/

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I got into a discussion today with someone about Oracle Text. After some searching, I found (or redisovered rather) this top links about Oracle Text. I posted them here for reference:"Exploring Oracle Text Basics"http://www.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/01-mar/o21int.html"Quick Start"http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/text/x/Samples/Quick_Start/index.html"The Official Oracle Text Product Page"

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This was an interesting article by James Koopmann, on 10th September, 2004, about career pitfalls he experienced in the past year (relative to the article, published in 2004).http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3405201He starts with "If you aren't moving you will never go anywhere. It is time to dust off your DBA shoes, and start thinking about your future." He goes on to

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I first bought this book "C Style: Standards and Guidelines", by David Straker, many years ago in the 1990's namely for its ideas on Programming Commenting and Naming Conventions. It probably has some of the best ideas about the topic I have ever seen, and with some imagination easily have its principles adapted to other languages.Now its on the web, meaning I do not have to carry it around

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When I generate a PDF file from an application (like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer), I use a 'print' out capability offered by FreePDF: in English or German.I know there are others that are similar, but this one has these benefits, in order of importance to me: Free and Flexible. Flexible in the sense that you can make different PDF output configurations. In particular, I use it for

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David Staker is a author I encountered when I bought is book: "C Style: Standards and Guidelines : Defining Programming Standards for Professional C Programmers". Recently I contacted him and found out to my delight he has a blog:http://changingminds.org/blog/blog.htmand that he has a company website:http://syque.com/This links into specialist topic websites like:http://changingminds.organdhttp:/

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I saw this posting by John Scott this morning about Image Style Verification in HTML DB:ImageVerificationExampleIts meant to be used to stop those automated spam bots submitting any form you may have. (Just like the image you get when posting a comment here.)Nice bit of work, although it has a dependency on SVG in the browser, and is not a real image. Hopefully soon SVG will be standard in

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I have been trying to figure out how to shard address books. So far I have gone through some links, based on a forum seach of "'address book' share". The best recommendation was:http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1911392#1911392I'll try it later on.

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I was checking today to see if there is a new version of Spellbound for Firefox version 1.5.Its still under development as stated in Robert's Post (The Developer) on Dec Thu 1st 2005 2:41am:I have been close to a release for the last month but have not been able to finish up the polishing to the level where I would be comfortable with a release. At this point it could be a day or it could be a

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There is a new website for those seeking information on Oracle's HTML DB Product, in the format of a wiki:http://wiki.shellprompt.net/htmldbI and others have spent some time in the past few days since the Twiki software was installed to facilitate it.Later, it is hoped that a HTML DB application will be made, in the same spirit as Wiki, to take over the functionality and showcase HTML DB as the

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FireFox 1.5 is out now!Check it out: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ It was easy and quick to install. It seems to work well, however I noticed these minor problems in the way I used it:The SVG compliance did not work for the SVG component of HTML DB.Spellbound become disabled as it is not compatible with version 1.5.While searching for Extensions, I did come across one called Xinha that is a

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